OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Biology Letters is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Unravelling a diversity of cellular structures and aggregation dynamics during the early development of Myxococcus xanthus	4
Patterns of sexual dimorphism in the armoured tardigrades	4
Chicks produce consonant, sometimes jazzy, sounds	3
Orsay virus infection increases Caenorhabditis elegans resistance to heat-shock	3
Genetic and evolutionary divergence of harbour seals ( Phoca vitulina ) in Iliamna Lake, Alaska	3
Polarized light detection in bumblebees varies with light intensity and is mediated by both the ocelli and compound eyes	3
A burrowing annelid from the early Cambrian	2
Reproduction results in parallel changes of oxidative stress and immunocompetence in a wild long-living mammal—edible dormouse Glis glis	2
No evidence for an up-regulation of female immune function in response to elevated risk of sexual conflict	2
A demographic assessment of the Lansing Effect in duckweed ( Lemna turionifera Landolt)	2
Optimally warm roost temperatures during lactation do not improve body condition in a long-lived bat	2
Distribution and developmental timing of zebrafish liver innervation	2
Activity of forkhead box P2-positive neurons is associated with tadpole begging behaviour	2
Bat consumption by holostean fishes in the Eocene Lake Messel: insights into the trophic adaptability of extinct gars and bowfins	2
Sonic restoration: acoustic stimulation enhances plant growth-promoting fungi activity	2
Fisheries-induced life-history changes recover in experimentally harvested fish populations	2
Pulsed artificial light at night alters moth flight behaviour	2
Dogs with a vocabulary of object labels retain them for at least 2 years	2
The functions of leg muscles, structures and mechanisms in running	1
Molecular correlates of swarming behaviour in Aedes aegypti males	1
A brief review of non-avian dinosaur biogeography: state-of-the-art and prospectus	1
Range-wide salamander densities reveal a key component of terrestrial vertebrate biomass in eastern North American forests	1
Vampire bats rapidly fuel running with essential or non-essential amino acids from a blood meal	1
Host genetic diversity and body condition influence parasite resistance and clearance in a wild marine mammal population	1
Do risk-prone behaviours compromise reproduction and increase vulnerability of fish aggregations exposed to fishing?	1

Predation affects the evolution of sex-specific longevity	1
Density-dependent dispersal reduces conflict over the sex ratio	1
Breed function and behaviour correlate with endocranial volume in domestic dogs	1
Neural mechanisms of mutualistic fish cleaning behaviour: a study in the wild	1
Hidden rivals: the negative impacts of dolphinfish on seabird foraging behaviour	1
Exploring fluctuating asymmetry in two recovering populations of the Eurasian otter	1
An ulvophycean marine green alga produces large parthenogenetic isogametes as predicted by the gamete dynamics model for the evolution of anisogamy	0
Establishing species boundaries in Bornean geckos	0
A feminine advantage in the domain of harm: a review and path forward	0
The effects of artificial light at night on spider brains	0
Weighting of sensory cues reflect changing patterns of visual investment during ecological divergence in Heliconius butterflies	0
A critique of Thompson and Ramírez-Barahona (2023) or: how I learned to stop worrying and love the fossil record	0
Are agricultural commodity production systems at risk from local biodiversity loss?	0
Supersize me: hypotheses on torpor-assisted prehibernation fattening in a boreal bat	0
More allogrooming is followed by higher physiological stress in wild female baboons	0
The meaning of mass extinctions and what the fossil record tells us about angiosperm survival at K-Pg: a reply to Hagen (2024)	0
Tactile bill-tip organs in seabirds suggest conservation of a deep avian symplesiomorphy	0
Evidence for inbreeding depression in captive Damaraland mole-rats	0
Constant companions: wild zebra finch pairs display extreme spatial cohesion	0
Nest site correlates with nest type and body size in Troglodytidae passerines	0
Ultradian rhythms of activity in a wild subterranean rodent	0
Hyperbolic discounting underpins response curves of mammalian avoidance behaviour	0
Stress produces negative judgement bias in cuttlefish	0
Addictive manipulation: a perspective on the role of reproductive parasitism in the evolution of bacteria–eukaryote symbioses	0
Field evidence for the role of plant volatiles induced by caterpillar oral secretion in prey localization by predatory social wasps	0
The reduction in relative brain size in the domesticated dog is not an evolutionary singularity among the canids	0
Enhancing African coelacanth monitoring using environmental DNA	0
Acorn ant exhibits age-dependent induced defence in response to parasitic raids	0
Remote islands as natural laboratories: human–food association increases attraction to humans and novelty exploration in a seabird	0
The macroecology of Mesozoic dinosaurs	0
Adaptation to soil type contributes little to local adaptation in an Italian and a Swedish ecotype of Arabidopsis thaliana on contrasting soils	0
Fruit resources shape sexual selection processes in a lek mating system	0
Highly virulent avian brood-parasitic species show elevated embryonic metabolic rates at specific incubation stages compared to less virulent and non-parasitic species	0
Morpho butterfly flashiness crucially depends on wing scale curvature	0
Do kea parrots infer the weight of objects from their movement in a breeze?	0
Rapid body colouration changes in Oryzias celebensis as a social signal influenced by environmental background	0
Novel rebreathing adaptation extends dive time in a semi-aquatic lizard	0
Premeiotic endoreplication is the mechanism of obligate parthenogenesis in rock lizards of the genus Darevskia	0
Ionizing radiation has negligible effects on the age, telomere length and corticosterone levels of Chornobyl tree frogs	0